Details: Lambda@Edge, now in Preview, allows you to write functions deployed to the AWS network of Edge locations in response to CloudFront. This new feature allows you to customize or personalize content for your end users close to where they’re located, minimizing network latency. For instance, you can modify HTTP headers to personalize your application for each user, implement custom authentication or encryption logic right at the edge, detect and group users by device, support legacy devices by reformatting content on the viewer response, and much more.

Lambda@Edge is integrated with Amazon CloudFront and uses CloudFront events as triggers to execute functions automatically at AWS’s edge locations, without the need for you to run or manage servers. Just write and upload your Node.js function using the Lambda console and select your CloudFront trigger event. Lambda@Edge will take care of distributing your function to the edge locations closest to your end users. Just as with Lambda today, you pay a fee each time your function executes and for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your function is not running.

For more information on Lambda@Edge click here. For additional details and service limits, see the CloudFront Developer Guide. To sign-up for the public preview click here.

Announcing Regional Edge Caches for Amazon CloudFront

Date: November 29, 2016

Details: Today, we are pleased to announce that Amazon CloudFront has added a new type of edge location called Regional Edge Cache that further improves performance for your viewers. Regional Edge Caches, in addition to improving performance, also help reduce the load on your origin resources, minimizing operational burden associated with scaling your origin and reducing your origin costs. The nine new Regional Edge Cache locations are in Northern Virginia, Oregon, São Paulo, Frankfurt, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Mumbai, and Sydney.

Regional Edge Caches are turned on by default for your CloudFront distributions; you do not need to make any changes to your distributions to take advantage of this feature. There are also no additional charges to use this feature. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: We are excited to announce new edge locations in the cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Berlin, Germany. We have also added a fourth edge location in London, England. This brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 68. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing Our Third Edge Location in Hong Kong for Amazon CloudFront

Date: November 18, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Hong Kong for Amazon CloudFront. This is the third edge location in Hong Kong which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 65. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing Our Fourth Edge Location in Japan for Amazon CloudFront

Date: November 11, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Tokyo, Japan (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the third edge location in Tokyo and fourth in Japan which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 64. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Bring Your Own SSL/TLS Certificates with AWS Certificate Manager

Date: October 21, 2016

Details: You can now use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certificate issued by a third-party Certificate Authority (CA), and associate that certificate with your CloudFront distributions within minutes. You can use the AWS Management Console to monitor the expiration date of your imported certificate, and import a new third-party certificate to replace the expiring one. Importing certificates doesn't cost anything. You pay only for the AWS resources you utilize to run your application. Note that CloudFront still supports using certificates that you uploaded to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) certificate store. Please check out the ACM announcement and the documentation for more details on prerequisites for importing certificates.

Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Amazon CloudFront

Date: October 6, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that starting today you can use Amazon CloudFront to deliver your content both via IPv6 and IPv4 using HTTP/HTTPS.

IPv6 will be enabled by default for all newly created Amazon CloudFront web distributions starting today. For existing web distributions, you can enable IPv6 through the Amazon CloudFront console or API. Viewers and networks that connect to Amazon CloudFront edge locations over IPv6 will automatically be served content over IPv6. Those that connect over IPv4 will continue to work. Connections to your origin servers will remain on IPv4.

We are enabling IPv6 across every Autonomous Systems (AS) in a phased rollout starting today and expect to complete rollout across all networks over the next few weeks. To learn more about IPv6 support in Amazon CloudFront, see the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide and FAQ.

Announcing Two New Edge Locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront

Date: September 23, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce two new edge locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront. Frankfurt city now has five edge locations which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 63. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location in Mumbai and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 61. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing Second Edge Location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront

Date: September 12, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location in Atlanta and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 60. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2

Date: September 7, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that you can now enable HTTP/2 for your Amazon CloudFront distributions to improve the performance of your web content delivered to clients that support the new HTTP/2 protocol.

HTTP/2, an upgraded version of HTTP, supports multiplexing, header compression and stream priority that make the page loading and rendering faster. HTTP/2 is enabled by default for all new Amazon CloudFront distributions, and for existing distributions HTTP/2 can be enabled by editing their distribution configuration. There is no additional charge for using this feature, and clients that do not support HTTP/2 will still be able to communicate with HTTP/2-enabled Amazon CloudFront distributions using HTTP/1.1.

Details:Amazon CloudFront now lets you specify a whitelist of the query string parameters that you want Amazon CloudFront to use for caching, while still forwarding all the parameters to the Origin. Caching based on selected query string parameters can significantly improve performance to your end users by improving the cache-hit ratio and reducing the load on your origin.

Details: We are pleased to announce that you can now add cost allocation tags to your Amazon CloudFront distributions. Tags make it easier for you to allocate costs and optimize spending by categorizing and grouping AWS resources. For example, you can use tags to group resources by administrator, application name, cost center, or a specific project.

Details: We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge locations in Toronto and Montreal, our first edge locations in Canada. We have also added a second edge location in Sao Paolo, Brazil, our third edge location in Brazil.

With the addition of the new locations in Canada and the second edge location in Sao Paolo, Amazon CloudFront now has a total of 59 edge locations worldwide. To see a list of all Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list. To learn more about the service, register and attend a monthly office hour session that includes Q&A with Amazon CloudFront Engineers and Product Managers.

Announcing New Delhi, India Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront

Date: June 14, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. The New Delhi location is our third edge location in India (joining Mumbai and Chennai), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 56. To see a list of Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list here.

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Tokyo, Japan (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the third edge location in Tokyo and fourth in Japan which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 64. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Bring Your Own SSL/TLS Certificates with AWS Certificate Manager

Date: October 21, 2016

Details: You can now use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certificate issued by a third-party Certificate Authority (CA), and associate that certificate with your CloudFront distributions within minutes. You can use the AWS Management Console to monitor the expiration date of your imported certificate, and import a new third-party certificate to replace the expiring one. Importing certificates doesn't cost anything. You pay only for the AWS resources you utilize to run your application. Note that CloudFront still supports using certificates that you uploaded to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) certificate store. Please check out the ACM announcement and the documentation for more details on prerequisites for importing certificates.

Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Amazon CloudFront

Date: October 6, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that starting today you can use Amazon CloudFront to deliver your content both via IPv6 and IPv4 using HTTP/HTTPS.

IPv6 will be enabled by default for all newly created Amazon CloudFront web distributions starting today. For existing web distributions, you can enable IPv6 through the Amazon CloudFront console or API. Viewers and networks that connect to Amazon CloudFront edge locations over IPv6 will automatically be served content over IPv6. Those that connect over IPv4 will continue to work. Connections to your origin servers will remain on IPv4.

We are enabling IPv6 across every Autonomous Systems (AS) in a phased rollout starting today and expect to complete rollout across all networks over the next few weeks. To learn more about IPv6 support in Amazon CloudFront, see the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide and FAQ.

Announcing Two New Edge Locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront

Date: September 23, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce two new edge locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront. Frankfurt city now has five edge locations which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 63. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location in Mumbai and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 61. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing Second Edge Location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront

Date: September 12, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location in Atlanta and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 60. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2

Date: September 7, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that you can now enable HTTP/2 for your Amazon CloudFront distributions to improve the performance of your web content delivered to clients that support the new HTTP/2 protocol.

HTTP/2, an upgraded version of HTTP, supports multiplexing, header compression and stream priority that make the page loading and rendering faster. HTTP/2 is enabled by default for all new Amazon CloudFront distributions, and for existing distributions HTTP/2 can be enabled by editing their distribution configuration. There is no additional charge for using this feature, and clients that do not support HTTP/2 will still be able to communicate with HTTP/2-enabled Amazon CloudFront distributions using HTTP/1.1.

Details:Amazon CloudFront now lets you specify a whitelist of the query string parameters that you want Amazon CloudFront to use for caching, while still forwarding all the parameters to the Origin. Caching based on selected query string parameters can significantly improve performance to your end users by improving the cache-hit ratio and reducing the load on your origin.

Details: We are pleased to announce that you can now add cost allocation tags to your Amazon CloudFront distributions. Tags make it easier for you to allocate costs and optimize spending by categorizing and grouping AWS resources. For example, you can use tags to group resources by administrator, application name, cost center, or a specific project.

Details: We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge locations in Toronto and Montreal, our first edge locations in Canada. We have also added a second edge location in Sao Paolo, Brazil, our third edge location in Brazil.

With the addition of the new locations in Canada and the second edge location in Sao Paolo, Amazon CloudFront now has a total of 59 edge locations worldwide. To see a list of all Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list. To learn more about the service, register and attend a monthly office hour session that includes Q&A with Amazon CloudFront Engineers and Product Managers.

Announcing New Delhi, India Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront

Date: June 14, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. The New Delhi location is our third edge location in India (joining Mumbai and Chennai), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 56. To see a list of Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list here.

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Tokyo, Japan (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the third edge location in Tokyo and fourth in Japan which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 64. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Bring Your Own SSL/TLS Certificates with AWS Certificate Manager

Date: October 21, 2016

Details: You can now use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certificate issued by a third-party Certificate Authority (CA), and associate that certificate with your CloudFront distributions within minutes. You can use the AWS Management Console to monitor the expiration date of your imported certificate, and import a new third-party certificate to replace the expiring one. Importing certificates doesn't cost anything. You pay only for the AWS resources you utilize to run your application. Note that CloudFront still supports using certificates that you uploaded to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) certificate store. Please check out the ACM announcement and the documentation for more details on prerequisites for importing certificates.

Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Amazon CloudFront

Date: October 6, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that starting today you can use Amazon CloudFront to deliver your content both via IPv6 and IPv4 using HTTP/HTTPS.

IPv6 will be enabled by default for all newly created Amazon CloudFront web distributions starting today. For existing web distributions, you can enable IPv6 through the Amazon CloudFront console or API. Viewers and networks that connect to Amazon CloudFront edge locations over IPv6 will automatically be served content over IPv6. Those that connect over IPv4 will continue to work. Connections to your origin servers will remain on IPv4.

We are enabling IPv6 across every Autonomous Systems (AS) in a phased rollout starting today and expect to complete rollout across all networks over the next few weeks. To learn more about IPv6 support in Amazon CloudFront, see the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide and FAQ.

Announcing Two New Edge Locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront

Date: September 23, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce two new edge locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront. Frankfurt city now has five edge locations which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 63. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location in Mumbai and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 61. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing Second Edge Location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront

Date: September 12, 2016

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location in Atlanta and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 60. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2

Date: September 7, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that you can now enable HTTP/2 for your Amazon CloudFront distributions to improve the performance of your web content delivered to clients that support the new HTTP/2 protocol.

HTTP/2, an upgraded version of HTTP, supports multiplexing, header compression and stream priority that make the page loading and rendering faster. HTTP/2 is enabled by default for all new Amazon CloudFront distributions, and for existing distributions HTTP/2 can be enabled by editing their distribution configuration. There is no additional charge for using this feature, and clients that do not support HTTP/2 will still be able to communicate with HTTP/2-enabled Amazon CloudFront distributions using HTTP/1.1.

Details:Amazon CloudFront now lets you specify a whitelist of the query string parameters that you want Amazon CloudFront to use for caching, while still forwarding all the parameters to the Origin. Caching based on selected query string parameters can significantly improve performance to your end users by improving the cache-hit ratio and reducing the load on your origin.

Details: We are pleased to announce that you can now add cost allocation tags to your Amazon CloudFront distributions. Tags make it easier for you to allocate costs and optimize spending by categorizing and grouping AWS resources. For example, you can use tags to group resources by administrator, application name, cost center, or a specific project.

Details: We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge locations in Toronto and Montreal, our first edge locations in Canada. We have also added a second edge location in Sao Paolo, Brazil, our third edge location in Brazil.

With the addition of the new locations in Canada and the second edge location in Sao Paolo, Amazon CloudFront now has a total of 59 edge locations worldwide. To see a list of all Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list. To learn more about the service, register and attend a monthly office hour session that includes Q&A with Amazon CloudFront Engineers and Product Managers.

Announcing New Delhi, India Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront

Date: June 14, 2016

Details: We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. The New Delhi location is our third edge location in India (joining Mumbai and Chennai), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 56. To see a list of Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list here.

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Seoul, Korea for Amazon CloudFront. This is the third edge location in Seoul, Korea and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 55. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Integrates with AWS Certificate Manager

Date: January 21, 2016

Details: You can now provision SSL/TLS certificates and associate them with CloudFront distributions within minutes. Simply provision a certificate using the new AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and deploy it to your CloudFront distribution with a couple of clicks, and let ACM manage certificate renewals for you. ACM allows you to provision, deploy, and manage the certificate with no additional charges.

Note that CloudFront still supports using certificates that you obtained from a third-party certificate authority and uploaded to the IAM certificate store. Please check out Jeff Barr’s blog for more details.

Now enforce HTTPS Connections and Support for TLSv1.1 & TLSv1.2 Between Amazon CloudFront & Origin

Date: January 13, 2016

Details: Now you can configure CloudFront to connect to your origin server using HTTPS regardless of whether the viewer made the request by using HTTP or HTTPS.

You can also enable TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 between CloudFront and your origin server. As part of this feature, you can also choose the protocols that CloudFront uses when communicating with your origin: SSLv3, TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, and/or TLSv1.2.

For more details on these new CloudFront origin security features, you can read more here.

Now Add or Modify Request Headers Forwarded From Amazon CloudFront to Origin

Date: December 28, 2015

Details: You can now configure Amazon CloudFront to add custom headers, or override the value of existing headers, to requests forwarded to your origin. You can use these headers to help validate that requests made to your origin were sent from CloudFront; you can even configure your origin to only allow requests that contain the custom header values you specify. Additionally, if you use multiple CloudFront distributions with the same origin, you can use custom headers to distinguish origin request made by each different distribution. Finally, custom headers can be used to help determine the right CORS headers returned for your requests. You can configure custom headers via the CloudFront API and the AWS Management Console. There are no additional charges for this feature.

For more details on how to set your custom headers, you can read more here.

Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Automatic Gzip Compression at the Edge

Date: December 17, 2015

Details: You can now configure Amazon CloudFront to automatically apply GZIP compression when browsers and other clients request a compressed object with text and other compressible file formats. This means that if you are already using Amazon S3, CloudFront can transparently compress this type of content. For origins outside S3, doing compression at the edge means you don’t need to use resources at your origin to do compression. The resulting smaller size of compressed objects makes downloads faster and reduces your CloudFront data transfer charges.

To learn more about this feature please visit the gzip section of the CloudFront developer guide

New Edge Location in Chicago, Illinois for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53

Date: December 1, 2015

Details: We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in Chicago, Illinois for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. The new edge location helps improve performance and availability for end users of your application and supports all Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 features at no additional cost. With the addition of the Chicago edge location, there are now a total of 21 edge locations in the US and 54 worldwide.

Details: You can now integrate your CloudFront web distribution with AWS WAF, a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules based on IP addresses, HTTP headers, and custom URI strings. Using these rules, AWS WAF can block, allow, or monitor (count) web requests for your web application.

With AWS WAF you pay only for what you use. AWS WAF pricing is based upon how many rules you deploy and how many web requests your web application receives. There are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments. Learn more by reading Jeff Barr's blog post.

Amazon CloudFront is Now Included in the Set of Services That Are PCI DSS Compliant.

Date: August 4, 2015

Details: Amazon CloudFront is now included in the set of services that are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Merchant Level 1, the highest level of compliance for service providers.

PCI DSS compliance is a requirement for any business that stores, processes, or transmits credit card data. Amazon CloudFront's PCI compliance now makes it easier for retail e-commerce, travel booking, ticket sale, or in-app purchase applications to integrate Amazon CloudFront as a part of their architecture and adhere to PCI DSS. Because Amazon CloudFront supports dynamic and static content delivery, customers such as e-commerce businesses can use the same secure service for whole site delivery to accelerate both the browsing and shopping cart experience for their site visitors.

Details: Amazon CloudFront now lets you configure a maximum time-to-live (TTL) and a default TTL to specify how long CloudFront caches your objects in edge locations. Previously, Amazon CloudFront allowed you to configure the minimum TTL. With these new features, you can get even more granular control over the duration of CloudFront caching. Learn more by reading the announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Makes it Easier to Invalidate Multiple Objects

Date: May 21, 2015

Details: Amazon CloudFront’s invalidation feature, which allows you to remove an object from the CloudFront cache before it expires, now supports the * wildcard character. You can add a * wildcard character at the end of an invalidation path to remove all objects that match this path. In the past, when you wanted to invalidate multiple objects, you had to list every object path separately. Now, you can easily invalidate multiple objects using the * wildcard character. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: You can now learn more about the devices your end users use to access content Amazon CloudFront is delivering. The new Devices Report shows you how many requests come from mobile, tablets, desktops, and smart TVs during a specified time period. We’ve also made several other improvements to the Reports & Analytics section of the AWS Management Console easier to use including&nbsp;CSV export functionality. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcement: Announcing Support for Smart TV Device Detection

Date: March 13, 2015

Details: You can now use Amazon CloudFront to cache and deliver customized content to your viewers on a Smart TV based on the value of the User Agent header. Learn more by reading about this topic in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Signed Cookies for Private Content

Date: March 12, 2015

Details: Amazon CloudFront now gives you a new way to secure your private content: CloudFront signed HTTP cookies. In the past, you could control who is able to access your CloudFront content by adding a custom signature to each object URL. Now you can get that same degree of control by including the signature in an HTTP cookie instead. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing Second Edge Location in Seoul, Korea for Amazon CloudFront and Route 53

Date: January 26, 2015

Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Seoul, Korea for Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. This is the second edge location in Seoul, Korea and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 53. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: When you specify the origin for a CloudFront distribution - the Amazon S3 bucket or the custom origin where you store the original version of content - you can now specify a directory path in addition to a domain name. This makes it easier for you to deliver different types of content via CloudFront without changing your origin infrastructure. Learn more by reading our announcement.

New Amazon CloudFront Reports: Locations, Browsers, OS and Top Referrers

Date: December 16, 2014

Details: You can now use the Amazon CloudFront Reports & Analytics dashboard to learn more about your end users including locations, browsers and operations systems as well as the top referrers to your website. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: We are excited to announce that effective December 01, 2014, Amazon CloudFront is reducing prices for data transferred out of its edge locations in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, Philippines, S. Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia. The new CloudFront prices are between 4% and 29% lower than previous prices depending on the edge location and usage tier. Further data transferred from AWS regions to Amazon CloudFront is now free of charge, allowing you to move data from Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Elastic Load Balancing to any CloudFront edge location worldwide without being charged any data transfer fees.Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: You can now visit the Amazon CloudFront Reporting & Analytics dashboard in the AWS Management Console to view a list of your most Popular Objects or get detailed Cache Statistics about your content delivered via CloudFront. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Now Publishes Six Operational Metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

Date: October 09, 2014

Details: You can now monitor, alarm and receive notifications on the operational performance of Amazon CloudFront using Amazon CloudWatch, giving you more visibility into the overall health of your web application. CloudFront now automatically publishes six operational metrics within just a few minutes of the viewer request for each of your Amazon CloudFront web distributions. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Support for Wildcard cookies and OPTIONS caching

Date: October 07, 2014

Details: Amazon CloudFront allows wildcard characters in the whitelisted cookie name that you want Amazon CloudFront to forward to your origin server. We have also enabled the ability to specify whether you want CloudFront to cache the response from your origin server when a viewer submits an OPTIONS request. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Support for Advanced SSL Features

Date: August 20, 2014

Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports advanced SSL features: Session Tickets, OCSP Stapling and Perfect Forward Secrecy. These features are automatically enabled and work with the default Amazon CloudFront SSL certificate as well as the SNI Custom SSL and Dedicated IP Custom SSL solutions. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing New Locations in Australia for Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, and Direct Connect

Date: July 9, 2014

Details: We are excited to announce new locations in Australia for Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, and Direct Connect. First, Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 customers have a new edge location in Melbourne, Australia. This is the second edge location in Australia (joining Sydney), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 52. Second, AWS Direct Connect customers now have a new location in Sydney, Australia. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces new features that will let you further personalize your content delivery to your end users depending on the characteristics of their request, such as the device they are using to access your site or the country from which they accessed your content. Learn more about this new feature by reading our announcement or by visiting the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Amazon CloudFront API Calls Now Supported by AWS CloudTrail

Date: May 28th, 2014

Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports AWS CloudTrail, a web service that records AWS API calls for your account. The AWS API call history recorded by CloudTrail enables security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing. Learn more about CloudTrail at the AWS CloudTrail detail page, and turn it on via CloudTrail's AWS Management Console.

Details: We are excited to announce that starting May 1, 2014, the AWS Free Usage Tier benefits will include Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery web service. Free-tier eligible customers can now try Amazon CloudFront at no additional cost. The free tier for Amazon CloudFront includes up to 50 GB data transfer and 2,000,000 requests per month aggregated across all AWS edge locations. Please visit the AWS Free Usage Tier page for more information.

Webinar: Amazon CloudFront Office Hours Date: May 27th, 2014 10:00AM – 11:00AM PST Details: In this webinar, join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network, for an interactive “Office Hours” session. This session enables a technical audience the ability to interact directly with our team in the form of a live Q&A. Register for this webinar.

Amazon CloudFront Adds EDNS-Client-Subnet Support

Date: April 02nd, 2014

Details: We’re excited to let you know that we’ve added support for EDNS-Client-Subnet. With this improvement, Amazon CloudFront now provides more accurate routing and hence better performance for your end users who use Google Public DNS or Open DNS resolvers.

You can learn more about EDNS-Client-Subnet by reading our announcement.

Announcing Amazon CloudFront Usage Charts

Track Trends in Requests & Data Transfer

Date: March 13th, 2014Details: We are excited to let you know that you can now view your Amazon CloudFront usage on six new charts in the AWS Management Console. CloudFront Usage Charts let you track trends in data transfer and requests (both HTTP and HTTPS) for each of your active CloudFront Web distributions. These charts show your usage from each CloudFront region at daily or hourly granularity, going back up to 60 days. They also include totals, average, and peak usage during the time interval selected.

There are no additional charges for these six usage reports. To get started using CloudFront Usage Charts, simply navigate to the Amazon CloudFront Management Console, select the Reports and Analytics link on the left navigation panel.

Date: March 5th, 2014Details: We are excited to announce that you can now use your own SSL certificates with Amazon CloudFront at no additional charge with Server Name Indication (SNI) Custom SSL. You can also now configure Amazon CloudFront to require viewers to interact with your content over an HTTPS connection using the HTTP to HTTPS Redirect feature. To learn more about the Amazon CloudFront SNI Custom SSL or HTTP to HTTPS Redirect features, please visit the Amazon CloudFront Custom SSL Page or the CloudFront Developer Guide.

Amazon CloudFront Expands Media Streaming Capabilities by Offering Smooth Streaming SupportDate: Feb 20th, 2014Details: We are excited to announce that Amazon CloudFront now supports Microsoft Smooth Streaming as a new option for customers who want to stream on-demand media content without having to setup and manage any media servers. Learn more by reading our announcement or the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide. You can also join our webinar at 11:00AM AM Pacific (UTC-7) on March 19, 2014 to learn more about video streaming using Smooth Streaming and other HTTP based protocols over Amazon CloudFront. Register for this webinar.

Announcing New Edge Locations in Rio de Janeiro and Taipei, Taiwan for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53Date: Jan 7th, 2014Details:We are excited to announce the launch of edge locations in Taipei, Taiwan and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. . This is our first edge location in Taiwan and our second edge location in Brazil (joining Sao Paulo). These new locations will improve performance and availability for end users of your applications being served by Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53, and bring the total number of AWS edge locations to 51 worldwide. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Geo Restriction FeatureDate: Dec 18th, 2013Details:We are excited to announce that you can now use Amazon CloudFront to restrict access to your content based on the geographic location of your viewers. With Geo Restriction you can choose the countries (by configuring either a whitelist or a blacklist) where you want Amazon CloudFront to deliver your content. Learn more by reading our announcement or the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide. You can also join our webinar at 10:00 AM PST on February 4th, 2014 to learn more about Geo Restriction and other recent Amazon CloudFront features that give you the protection and control you need to deliver your content. Register for this webinar.

Announcing New Edge Locations in Manila, Marseille and Warsaw for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 Date: Dec 15th, 2013Details: We are excited to announce the launch of three new edge locations – Manila in the Philippines, Marseille in France and Warsaw in Poland. These new locations will improve performance and availability for end users of your applications being served by Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 and bring the total number of AWS edge locations to 49 worldwide. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Announces Atlanta, GA PoP and Additional Pops in London and Frankfurt Date: Nov 3rd, 2013Details: We’re excited to announce the launch of a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in Atlanta, GA. We have also recently added third edge locations in London, UK and Frankfurt, Germany in order to increase connectivity and to provide even better service for our customers. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Announcing Amazon CloudFront Support for POST/PUT and other HTTP Methods Date: Oct 15th, 2013Details: We are excited to announce that Amazon CloudFront has added support for five additional HTTP methods: POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS and PATCH. This means you can now use CloudFront to accelerate data uploaded from end users, improving the performance of dynamic and personalized websites that have web forms, comment and login boxes, “add to cart” buttons or other features. Learn more by reading our announcement or the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide. You can also attend our webinar "Using Amazon CloudFront to Accelerate Your Static, Dynamic, and Interactive Content" on November 7, 2013 at 10AM PDT to learn more

Webinar Series: Video Streaming Options Using Amazon CloudFrontDate: Oct 22-24th, 2013Details: We'd like to invite you to join us for a series of webinars to help you learn how AWS can be used to stream video. Whether you need to serve highly-popular live events or deliver on-demand video to viewers on multiple devices, streaming video can seem challenging. So later this month, we will be hosting a series of three webinars that will show you hands-on tips and tricks that make streaming video using AWS easy and cost effective. Our first session will provide an overview of video streaming on AWS and the following two sessions will look at solutions from our third-party ecosystem. These three webinars will be held during the week of October 21st.

Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Customized Error ResponsesDate: Sept 23rd, 2013Details: We’re excited to let you know that we’ve added two new features that allow to you to configure how CloudFront handles error responses for your website: Custom Error Pages allow you to serve error pages with your own branding and content and Configurable Cache Duration for Error Responses allows you to specify how long you want each error page to be cached at CloudFront edge locations. Learn more by reading our announcement or Jeff Barr's blog post.

Amazon CloudFront Announces Wildcard CNAME SupportDate: Sept 18th, 2013Details: We are excited to announce that you can now include the * wildcard in a CloudFront alternate domain name (CNAME), such as *.example.com. This is useful when you want to route all requests for objects in a domain and its subdomains to a CloudFront distribution. Learn more by reading our announcement or Jeff Barr's blog post.

Amazon CloudFront Adds New Edge Locations in Chennai and Mumbai, IndiaDate: July 28th, 2013Details: We are excited to announce the launch of our newest edge locations in Chennai and Mumbai, India to serve end users of Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. These are our first edge locations in India and each new edge location helps to lower latency and improve performance for your end users. Learn more by reading our announcement.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Custom SSL Certificate and Zone Apex supportDate: June 10th, 2013Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports Custom SSL Certificates and Zone Apex, two features that make it easier for you to accelerate and deliver your whole website using CloudFront. Custom SSL Certificate support lets you deliver content over HTTPS using your own domain name and your own SSL certificate. Zone apex support give you the ability to point the root of your website to a CloudFront distribution. Learn more about these features on the CloudFront SSL Support page or read Jeff Barr's Blog post.

Announcing New Edge Location in Seoul, Korea for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53Date: May 1st, 2013 Details: We are excited to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Seoul, Korea to serve end users of Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in Korea and each new edge location helps to lower latency and improve performance for your end users. With the addition of this location, Amazon CloudFront now has a total of 40 edge locations worldwide. Read more on Jeff Barr's blog post.

Webinar: Whole Site Delivery with Amazon CloudFrontDate: May 16th, 10:00AM – 11:00AM PSTDetails: In this webinar, we'll provide an overview on how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your whole site and demonstrate how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your site to deliver both static and dynamic content (portions of your site that change for each end-user). AWS Customers NPR and Toronto Star will also join us and share how they've use Amazon CloudFront to help architect their web sites. Register for the webinar.

Webinar: Amazon CloudFront Office HoursDate: May 9th, 2013 10:00AM – 11:00AM PSTDetails: In this webinar, join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network, for an interactive “Office Hours” session. This session enables a technical audience the ability to interact directly with our team in the form of a live Q&A. Register for this webinar.

Lower prices on data transfer between AWS regions and CloudFront edge locationsDate: Jan 31, 2013Details: We are excited to announce that effective February 1, 2013 AWS has lowered the price of data transfer from AWS Regions to Amazon CloudFront edge locations for “origin fetches” by as much as 83%. This includes data transferred from Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to any Amazon CloudFront edge location. You can learn more by reading the AWS blog. Pricing for all AWS services is available here.

Amazon CloudFront & Strangeloop offer combined CDN/FEO solutionDate: Nov 20, 2012Details: We’ve been working with the team at Strangeloop to make it easy for Amazon CloudFront customers to use and add front end optimization (FEO) to their sites that are hosted on AWS. Read more about FEO and the Strangeloop integration in our blog post.

Webinar: Delivering Static and Dynamic Content Using Amazon CloudFrontDate: Dec 4th, 10:00AM – 11:00AM PSTDetails: In this webinar delivered by the Amazon CloudFront product team, we'll provide an overview on how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your site to deliver both static and dynamic content (portions of your site that change for each end-user). We’ll also have a Q&A session. Register for this webinar.

Webinar: Amazon CloudFront Office HoursDate: Dec 18th, 9:00AM – 10:00AM PSTDetails: In this webinar, join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network, for an interactive “Office Hours” session. This session enables a technical audience the ability to interact directly with our team in the form of a live Q&A. Register for this webinar.

Amazon CloudFront launches new edge location in Hayward, CADate: Nov 13, 2012Details: We are excited to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Hayward, CA. Each new edge location helps lower latency and improves performance for your end users.

Amazon CloudFront Private Content Now Supported in the AWS Management Console Date: Sept 27, 2012Details: We are excited to announce that Amazon CloudFront has added support for the private content feature to the AWS Management Console. You can now configure your distribution to deliver private content without having to use the Amazon CloudFront API. You can read more in our announcement or by visiting the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

New Edge location in Madrid, Spain Date: Sept 12, 2012Details: We are excited to announce a new edge location in Madrid, Spain. This is our first edge location in Spain and this new location will speed up the delivery of static, streaming and dynamic content to end users in and around Spain. Read our announcement.

Support for Cookies: Amazon CloudFront now supports delivery of dynamic content that is customized or personalized using HTTP cookies. To use this feature, you specify whether you want Amazon CloudFront to forward some or all of your cookies to your custom origin server. Learn more in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Price Classes: This feature provides you more control over the prices you pay to deliver content out of Amazon CloudFront. Price Classes let you reduce your delivery prices by excluding Amazon CloudFront’s more expensive edge locations from your Amazon CloudFront distribution. Learn more.

New Access Log Fields: We have added three new fields to Amazon CloudFront access log files for HTTP(S) download distributions: the cookie header in the request, the result type of a request (cache hit/miss/error enabling you to calculate hit ratios) and the value of X-Amz-Cf-Id for that request (this is an encrypted string that uniquely identifies a request to help AWS troubleshoot/debug issues). Learn more.

Details: Amazon CloudFront was used on the NASA/JPL website during Curiosity’s Mars landing to spread traffic to points of presence around the world, thereby reducing latency for international visitors and improving the overall scalability of the solution. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront adds Sydney, Australia edge locationDate: June 18, 2012 Details: We are excited to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Sydney, Australia to serve end users of Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. An edge location in Australia has been frequently requested by our customers so we are excited to add this location to our global network. If you’re already using Amazon CloudFront or Amazon Route 53, you don't need to do anything to your applications as requests are automatically routed to this location when appropriate. Read our announcement or visit the AWS blog.

Amazon CloudFront launches several new PoPs bringing global PoP count to 32. Date: June 07, 2012 Details: Amazon CloudFront now has 32 global PoPs (Points of Presence) with the addition of second PoPs in Dallas and Paris (5/29). The team has been quietly adding second PoPs in several cities as they are seeing strong customer demand and are proactively adding capacity. Other locations where Amazon CloudFront has recently added second PoPs include London (4/24), Frankfurt (4/17), Singapore (3/27), and Virginia (3/23). Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Dynamic ContentDate: May 13, 2012Details: Amazon CloudFront can now deliver all of your content, including the dynamic portions of your site that change for each end-user.

Live Smooth Streaming for Amazon CloudFrontDate: April 01, 2012Details: You can now use Amazon CloudFront with Amazon EC2 running Windows Media Services for live Smooth Streaming – Microsoft’s adaptive streaming technology. With this solution, you can deliver live media over HTTP to both Microsoft Silverlight clients and Apple iOS devices.

Improved Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFrontDate: March 29, 2012Details: Amazon CloudFront improves live HTTP streaming support for both Flash-based and Apple iOS devices using Amazon CloudFront with Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 running on Amazon EC2. You can learn more by reading our blog post on our Improved Live Streaming or by visiting the live streaming tutorial.

Amazon CloudFront Lowers Minimum Content Expiration PeriodDate: March 19, 2012Details: Amazon CloudFront has removed the sixty minute minimum expiration period (also known as “time-to-live” or TTL) for cached objects so it can now be used for more frequently changing content. With this change, you have the ability to configure a minimum expiration period value for all objects in your distribution using the CloudFront API. The minimum TTL value may be as short as 0 seconds. Read more about the announcement or visit the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide for further technical details.

Amazon CloudFront Launches Tutorial on How to Geo-block ContentDate: Jan 19, 2012Details: Amazon CloudFront has built a tutorial (with sample code) that shows you how you can use a third-party geolocation service to restrict access to files in an Amazon CloudFront distribution based on the geographic location of end users. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Delivery of Files up to 20 GBDate: Dec 15, 2011Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports delivery of objects up to 20 GBs. This works not only with download (HTTP) distributions, but also with streaming (RTMP) of HD video files whether you’re using Amazon S3 as the origin or your own custom origin. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Tops 20,000 Customers Date: Nov 29, 2011Details: Amazon CloudFront now has over 20,000 active* customers which is double the number of customers from the same time last year. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront & Amazon Route 53 Add Three New Edge Locations Date: Dec 06, 2011Details: We’re excited to announce the launch of new edge locations in South Bend, IN and San Jose, CA to serve Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 customers. We have also added a second edge location in New York, NY in order to increase connectivity and to provide even better service for our customers. Read more.

New Edge Location in Sao Paulo, Brazil for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 Date: Sep 30, 2011Details: We’re excited to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Sao Paulo, Brazil to serve Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in South America and with this location CloudFront and Route 53 now have a total of 20 edge locations worldwide. Read more.

New Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 Date: Jun 23, 2011Details: We're excited to announce that we've added a new edge location in Stockholm to help improve performance for end users of Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Read more.

Announcing AWS Identity & Access Management Support for CloudFront Date: Mar 11, 2011Details: We are excited to announce the availability of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) support for Amazon CloudFront. IAM enables you to manage permissions for multiple Users within your AWS Account. With IAM, you can specify which CloudFront actions a User or a group of Users can perform. The IAM policies you set also govern permissions for User actions in the AWS Management Console for creating and managing CloudFront distributions. Read more.

New Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 Date: Feb 08, 2011Details: We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in Paris to help improve performance for end users of Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Read more.

New Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 Date: Dec 21, 2010Details: We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a new location in Jacksonville, FL to help improve performance for end users of Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 in the south east United States. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Announces General Availability, Support for Custom Origins, and Service Level Agreement Date: Nov 9, 2010Details: First, Amazon CloudFront is entering General Availability (GA), after adding many highly-requested features during the course of our public beta period. Second, you can now use Amazon CloudFront with any origin server that holds the original, definitive versions of your content. Third, we are providing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Amazon CloudFront, with a service level commitment of 99.9% availability. If availability falls below this level, customers are eligible to receive service credits. The new Amazon CloudFront SLA is designed to give you additional confidence that your content will always be available. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Adds HTTPS Support, Lowers Prices, Opens NYC Edge Location Date: Jun 07, 2010 Details: We’re excited to let you know about three separate changes to Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use AWS content delivery network. First, we’ve added the ability to deliver content over an HTTPS connection. We’re also announcing today that we’ve reduced our pricing for regular HTTP requests by 25%: prices for HTTP requests now start at $0.0075 per 10,000 requests, letting you save on content that doesn’t require HTTPS. We’re always looking for ways to reduce our costs, and we’re happy that we can pass these savings on to our customers. These lower prices will apply for all usage starting on June 1, 2010.Finally, we wanted to let you know that we’ve opened a new edge location in New York City, adding to our existing US East Coast locations. We’re excited that this location will help make performance even better for users requesting your content from New York and the northeast United States. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Access Logs for Streaming Date: May 13, 2010Details: Amazon CloudFront’s access log feature now works with streaming distributions. This means you can now get detailed activity records about every stream you serve from CloudFront. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Now in Singapore, Adds Private Content for Streaming Date: Mar 28, 2010Details: Amazon CloudFront, the easy to use content delivery network from Amazon Web Services, now has an edge location in Singapore. We’re excited that this will help you deliver content to end users in Asia with even lower latency and faster data transfer rates than before. Amazon CloudFront now has 15 edge locations worldwide, including locations in Hong Kong and Tokyo, as well as 4 locations in Europe and 8 in the United States. Read more.

Announcing Amazon CloudFront Streaming Date: Dec 15, 2009 Details: Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use content delivery service, now supports the ability to stream audio and video files. Traditionally, world-class streaming has been out of reach of for many customers – running streaming servers was technically complex, and customers had to negotiate long- term contracts with minimum commitments in order to have access to the global streaming infrastructure needed to give high performance. Read more.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Access Logging Capability Date: May 07, 2009Details: AWS today released access logs for Amazon CloudFront. Access logs are activity records that show you details about every request delivered through Amazon CloudFront. They contain a comprehensive set of information about requests for your content, including the object requested, the date and time of the request, the edge location serving the request, the client IP address, the referrer and the user agent. Read more.

Announcing Amazon CloudFront Date: Nov 18, 2008Details: AWS announces the public beta of Amazon CloudFront, a new AWS service for content delivery. CloudFront integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. Read more.